Trump’s ‘birther’ crusade was a scam wrapped in a con

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Trump’s ‘birther’ crusade was a scam wrapped in a con

By Steve Benen - 07/05/16 09:20 AM—UPDATED 07/05/16 11:18 AM

Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, has developed a national persona based on some unfortunate pillars: racism and conspiracy theories. Indeed, while we don’t hear much about the subject anymore, the GOP candidate’s rise to political notoriety came from Trump’s temporary obsession with President Obama’s birthplace.

The New York Times reported over the weekend on Trump’s fleeting anti-Obama crusade in 2011, when the Republican met with prominent figures in the birther “movement” and did a series of interviews in which Trump questioned the president’s country of birth.

As the Times report helped document, the GOP reality-show-personality-turned-conspiracy-theorist-turned-presidential-hopeful wasn’t exactly subtle. “Why doesn’t he show his birth certificate?” he asked on ABC’s “The View.” “I want to see his birth certificate,” he told Fox News’ “On the Record.” And on NBC’s “Today Show,” he declared, “I’m starting to think that [the president] was not born here.”

The ridiculous campaign helped Trump cultivate ties to racist activists on the right-wing fringe, which years later, helped boost his GOP presidential candidacy...

Read more:
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trumps-birther-crusade-was-scam-wrapped-con

[Gothmog]

1. Trump lied about sending investigators to Hawaii

[Hekate]

2. The "Pocahantas"/DNA thing is another birther stunt. Trump can tell just by looking at ya...

...if you're a real American or not.

Pathetic racist.